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The Exclusive Brands Sourcing Manager is responsible and accountable for driving business results for a global sub-business category within a regional sourcing team. This includes executing strategies set with the Regional Sourcing Hub leader and the Global Sourcing Director. This individual is responsible for building a supporting strategy that assists their cross-functional team in meeting the business and sourcing team goals. The individual in this role spends a significant amount of time leading their global cross-functional teams in supplier profiling, selection, qualification, categorization and management, and engaging in building and managing supplier relationships to drive and optimize the overall vendor management process in support of the Exclusive Brands Business.

A significant responsibility for this role also includes modeling and reinforcing compliance to standardized processes, as well as being a leader in modeling the company values. This role is ultimately responsible and accountable for developing a sourcing strategy that meets the needs of the organization and supports the targeted business growth. Establishing effective/efficient relationships with non-reporting cross-functional global team members is critical, especially within other Regional Sourcing Hubs.

Must be able to travel at a minimum of 10%

Key words: Exclusive Brands, Private Label, Insignia, Rocketfish, Dynex, Init, Geek Squad

Basic Qualifications:

1 or more years of Inventory/Supply Chain experience - retail forecasting, distribution & global logistics

1 or more years of team direction/management background

3 or more years of negotiating & supplier management experience

2 or more years of analytical & process improvement background

2 or more years of manufacturing experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Associates degree and/or Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree in International Business

Product Development experience in Consumer Electronics

Mandarin language experience

International travel experience

Ability to travel globally approx 10%

Job: Merchandising
Primary Location: United States-MN-Corporate Headquarters-Richfield
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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The Packaging Project Lead Emerging Markets (EM), Exclusive Brands, provides packaging expertise and project management for all Exclusive Brands products procured by the ExB Team globally. Primary responsibilities include supporting the International Cross-Functional Teams (point of contact for Cross-Channel Opportunities and New and Emerging Markets), Packaging Process, measuring and monitoring of the Service Provider Metrics and the Packaging Supplier Production Scorecards, manages and collaborates with Packaging Service Providers and Packaging Suppliers for the end-to-end execution of product packages, and coordinates all packaging activities and timelines globally. The Packaging Project Lead Emerging Markets collaborates with the Sr. Global Packaging Manager, Packaging Manager - Asia, Packaging Project Specialist - Asia, Sourcing Managers, Product Managers, Customer Marketing & Strategy, Legal, Customs Compliance, Best Buy Asia and International Expansion Teams. The single most important role of this position is to deliver Packaging that consistently meets the Brand Standards in the Emerging Markets supported (design, cost, color, finish, specifications, etc) as established by the Exclusive Brand Team on a timely basis.

Basic Qualifications:

5 or more years of experience in Packaging, Branding, Commercialization, Photography, Pre-Media and/or Print

2 or more years of experience in working with packaging service providers/suppliers quality assurance and quality control experience

Project management experience and experience working cross functionally

Computer and presentation skills (MS products)

Preferred Qualifications:

Merchandising and /or Manufacturing experience

International Business experience

Job: Merchandising
Primary Location: United States-MN-Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Area
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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The Product Test Specialist is responsible for the detailed product evaluation, performance measurements, usability, and compatibility testing of Best Buy's Connected/Networking/IT Exclusive Brands products. Responsible for the creation of detailed product test plans and product test reports. Responsible for reviewing test results from our suppliers and third party and providing direct feedback utilizing our closed loop corrective action process. This position will also be responsible for performing audits on both samples and test reports verifying the supplier is following our test process. This position will also assist engineers in product specification development and in troubleshooting issues found during product qualification.

Key Responsibilities:

Evaluate product samples and document test results

Test/Test Plan creation

Training of Product Testers

Assist engineers in product specification development

*** No relocation is being offered for this position.

Required Qualifications:

Associates Degree OR Bachelors Degree

Experience with wireless, wired networking, and 3G networking (to include clients, routers, and switches)

Experience with Consumer Electronics products such as DVD/Blu-ray and TV's

4 or more years of product evaluation experience

4 or more years of testing process design experience

5 or more years of detailed knowledge of features, functions, and technologies of one or more of the product categories marketed by Best Buy

2 or more years of project management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Linux operating systems

Job: Merchandising
Primary Location: United States-MN-Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Area
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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The Lead Engineer, System Software independently provides technical and project management leadership for the software development areas around IP- based products within the Exclusive brands organization. Lead role in overseeing the system software development, execution and quality assurance of software solutions across our connected products. Ability to manage external/virtual resources at our partners & suppliers to achieve technical, business and quality objectives is critical. Individual must understand the methodologies, technologies and disciplines for the appropriate systems software and integration and implement industry Best Practices and effective communication to develop solutions that deliver the best customer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

· Project and functional engineering lead role in evaluation of software platforms, suppliers and technology. Co-creation of APIs and UIs with partners.

· Lead role in system software and integration strategic technology planning for connected devices including platform strategy recommendations in collaboration with hardware engineering.

· Lead role in evangelizing and recommending system software and integration roadmap solutions to cross functional development team.

· Project and functional engineering lead role in overseeing the system software and development of connected devices working closely with our partners for development execution. Technical coordination, schedule creation, risk assessment, mitigation and contingency planning are key job responsibilities.

· Lead role in ensuring sufficient testing and assurance plans are in place and properly executed for the integrated system software and connected device solutions. Provide lead technical and project management interface to the Product Testing Labs to assure appropriate software integration and test plans are in place that meet or exceed our customer experience expectations is a key job role including execution of beta testing (if necessary).

· Lead role in problem resolution-seen as the primary engineering authority in resolving issues from a system software and integration perspective including both pre and post sales support. Responsible for collaborating with key development partners to ensure the quality of system software deliverables meet our customers expectations

· Scope and accountability is similar to a system software project manager of technical staff at a CE, IT or related product development company

Basic Qualifications:

· Bachelors Degree in BSCS, BSCE, or equivalent and 8 years of professional experience

· 8 or more years of System/Software design & development experience in both structured & object oriented application programming as well as low level firmware and driver development

· 3 or more years of experience in Client/Server architectures, as well as Web APIs such as SOAP & REST

· 8 or more years of experience with developing, troubleshooting and debugging software programs for oversight of partner development

· 5 or more years of experience with change management for code revisions (new product development and post-shipment.

· 8 or more years of Software Project or Engineering Management experience

· Breadth of experience in functionality (technical, strategic planning, scheduling/budgeting)

· 4 or more years of Technology Roadmap planning and evangelization experience including facilitation of key stakeholder decision meetings.

· 4 or more years of experience with wireless & networking technologies/products (Bluetooth, WiFi, cellular modem, etc.)

· System level experience connecting physical devices to web applications

Job: Merchandising
Primary Location: United States-MN-Corporate Headquarters-Richfield
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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